To excel and successfully compete in financial services markets, you require service-oriented and highly skilled legal counsel. Lawfields provides legal advisory services on the full range of the banking business, insurance, capital market transactions and their related regulatory matters.

We advise clients on the legislative developments and the unfolding regulatory implementation for the financial sector. Our team works to ensure that banking transactions proceed quickly and effectively. Our practice in this area enables us to put any transaction into the right context and provide the services which are appropriate to it. Our lawyers have counseled multinational, national, regional, and local banks and financial institutions on a wide range of legal issues. Our broad network within the banking industry allows us to offer our clients efficient, seamless legal assistance wherever their business takes them. In this area we cover aspects such as:

• Establishment of commercial banks and financial institutions;
• Negotiating, documenting, and closing finance and lending arrangements;
• Security documentation, perfection and enforcement;
• Debtor-in-possession financing, restructurings, insolvencies, receiverships; liquidations, and other debt reorganization arrangements;
• Letters of credit arrangements;
• Subordinated debt and mezzanine financing;
• Project finance;
• Corporate bonds;
• Representing underwriters or placement agents in capital markets transactions;
• Providing regulatory and compliance advice;
• Corporate governance;
• Privacy and Data Security;
• Asset Financing; and
• Litigation and Dispute Resolution.